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Dear Mr. Rumi, I wish I could come by to thank you in person but this being 2009 and you having lived back in the 1200s it’s a wee bit complicated. But still: thank you! Your poetry has helped me live life with more kindness and understanding and humor toward myself and my brother and… [Continue Reading]

The story details are private, and oddly, beside the point. (Good to notice!) But the feelings? The thoughts? The help? Maybe there’s a kernel of something for you in this too. The sadness seems endless. It’s a kind of desolation. A sense of being beyond-help. I don’t know where to go next with any of… [Continue Reading]

A massage can do wonders for a tight butt. Just sayin. Read that whichever way you like, and you’ll probably be right. I just had one. It was awesome. The massage, that is. The tight butt? Not so much. Because, a tight butt is pretty much—how to say—a pain in the freaking ass! Not to… [Continue Reading]

Something in me is exhausted. Tired of Waiting. Hoping. Trying. It says, “It’s too much. I can’t anymore. I’m exhausted.” I tell it that I can really hear that. I can sense how tired it is. “It’s so heavy,” it tells me. Yes, I can sense how heavy it is for you. Inside my body… [Continue Reading]

Sometimes the whole of me is like a crowded bus in motion, all passengers wanting to get somewhere else, somewhere better, somewhere different, all of them not quite happy where they are. There’s a lot of sighing, and “if only-ing”, and “Ma, how many minutes till we get there?” going on. There is a lack… [Continue Reading]

Is that true? Hmmmm. I believe it sometimes. Can you absolutely know that it’s true that “they won’t like you if you are real”? No. I can’t know. How do you react when you believe that “they won’t like me if I’m real”? I pretend: my voice is different, maybe a bit higher, a bit… [Continue Reading]

Is that true, Sweetheart, that you need your dad to have shown you how to be carefree? Yes, he should have. If I’d learned it when I was little, I’d not be so anxious as a grown-up. What’s the reality of it, did he show you how to be carefree? No, not in my recollection…. [Continue Reading]

Recently I was listening to a panel discussion on NPR on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and war(s) in the Middle East. One of the panelists commented that the U.S. does not speak to a number of countries and that in the last couple of years, when Iran tried to communicate with the U.S. via the Swiss… [Continue Reading]

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